The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-11-26
IN TEE WORLD OF LABOR.
sroiaily Compiled for the TOilorsby an Ad-
vooate Man

vccate Man
Reading has eighteen assemblies Of
the X. OF l..
The Rea ing car shops are turning
out twenty to forty cars per day.
If you haye items of interest to the
toiers send them to the ADVOCATE.
Hearty and healthful co-operation be-
tween labor and capital is the road to sue
cess.
Eight or ten employees of the Unicorn
silk mill, at Allentown, have struck for
an increase in wages.
1t is said that the Reading railroad
company is sending coal to market at the
rate of a thousand tons per hour.
Considerable money was raised in this
vicinity during the past week for the strik-
ing miners in the Leheh coal region.
"A number of Lehigh Vally engineers
and firemen, whose homes are in this
borough, are employed on the upper dvis-
ion of that road.
The miners are as persistent and deter
mined as ever that the demand asked for
be conceded before they return to work.
Are they right or wrong? The voice of
every toiler answers, Iightl Monopolists of
course murmer wrong.
The condition of the rail market and
the scarcity and high value of ore have
forced the twelve Bessemer steet mauufact-
urers Of this country to agree to shut down
all work on Dec 1. A large number Of
men will be thrown out OF employment.
This seems to be another natural result of a
protective tariff on raw material that pro-
tects nobody
"A movement has been inaugurated by
the chief officers of the Knights of Labor
against the growing evil of employing con-
vict labor in competition with free labor
Petitions have been circulated for presenta-
tion to Congress, asking that body to pass
laws requiring convict made goods to be
branded as such for the protection of Iegisi-
mate manufacturers and workmen.
The Toledo Blade puts the truth ter
sely when it says; The acme of absurdity
was reached in the effort to indentify these
of labor. Labor thrlYes best in times of
profound peace and security, when there
is nothing to make the most cautious take
| in sail and prepare for a storm. The
Anarchists were pledged to doctrines which
would overthrow all law and all authority,
and relegate society to the condition of
barbarism.
If the strike continues much longer 1t
is not Improbable, says an individual in a
position to know whereof he speaks, that
the Packerton car shops will shut down in
definitely. This action on the part of the
company, if taken at all, will be meant as a
Iebuke to the Knights of Labor who are
sending financial aid to the miners in the
Lehigh coal region, the effect of suspen-
sion at this season would be lamentable.
Our people are all anxiously awaiting de-
velopments.
Some idea of the extent to which me-
chanical ingenuity and efficiency haye ad-
vanced may be had from the following state
ment: SIT is now possible to construct a
complete sewing machine in a minute, or
sixty in one hour; reaper every fifteen
minutes, or less; 800 watches in day. COM
plete in all their appointments. More I'M
portant than this even. is the fact that it is
possible to construct a locomotive in a day.
From the plans of a draughtsman to the
execution of them by the workmen, every
wheel, lever, valve and rod may be con-
structed from the metal to the engine intact.
Every rivet may be driven in the boiler,
every tube in the tube sheets, and from the
smokestack to the ashpan, locomotive
may be turned out in working day, COM
pletely equipped, ready to do the work of a
hundred horses" Without such machine
ry and the skilled labor to operate them,
the civilized world of to-day would be an
impossibility.